Frustrated Trump lashes out at FBI
President Trump is angry and frustrated over the removal of a senior FBI official from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team over alleged anti-Trump text messages, a development that surfaced after former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea in the Russia investigation.
People close to the White House say Trump’s frustration explains some of his tweets and statements lashing out at the FBI, but insist the president’s team is not shifting its legal strategy in response to the probe.
“When you see this partisan bend, there’s a desire there to respond,” said one former Trump transition and campaign official, who requested anonymity to talk about the probe. “You have the president pointing out the FBI needs to be free of this bias.”
The top FBI agent assigned to Mueller’s probe into Russia’s 2016 election interference, Peter Strzok, was reassigned over the summer because of text messages he allegedly sent to a woman that criticized Trump and praised Hillary Clinton.
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